Author: Stuart Witts

Social Media Manager at a national charity. Creator of #Twadvent. Co-founder of #FloweryTweetup. Indissoluble optimist... Stay Happy And Don't Die!
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The hidden influence of social networks

“…the spread of good and valuable things is required to sustain and nourish social networks. Similarly, social networks are required for the spread of good and valuable things like love and kindness and happiness and altruism and ideas.” – Nicholas Christakis

Hat tip to uberVU

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Bletchley Park's code breakers are at it again.

Today’s excursion to the Forties Family event at Bletchely Park has confirmed my suspicions that those boffins at Britain’s super secret wartime intelligence site are at it again and this time they’re cracking a very different code.

Not content with changing the course of the war and saving millions of lives, Bletchley’s technicians are now hard at work deciphering the social code. But while other organisations are busy discussing and planning their strategy these analytical geniuses are DOING!

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#Top10Thursday :: Cars in my Fantasy Garage

This weeks #Top10Thursday is a list that every petrolhead has engraved permanently on their minds, the mythical Fantasy Garage.

Everyone has one, it’s that special place reserved for all the cars that one would own if money and practicality weren’t an issue. Fantasy Garages are populated with the best of the best, the supercars, the classics, the rarities and sometimes even the bizarre.

Join me as I raise the door and share with you my Top 10 Cars in my Fantasy Garage…

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#Top10Thursday :: Classic Films You Haven't Seen

This weeks #Top10Thursday was inspired by a conversation concerning a previous Top 10 list. After some debate about which Toys from the 80’s each of us had owned, the discussion moved on to the classic film The Goonies. Without considering the consequences I said that I had never seen this particular 80’s classic and suddenly the full force of Twitter was unleashed upon me.

Clearly I had touched a very raw nerve and I set about discovering what other classic films my fellow Tweeters hadn’t seen. I created the #filmconfessions hashtag and started an amnesty on classic movie misses. Here, in their own words, is the Top 10 Classic Films I Haven’t Seen…

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Be lucky…

What is luck? Are some people born with it? Can it be acquired? Here is someone whom I was lucky enough to meet explaining why he has so much of it.

“I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson

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#Top10Thursday :: Inspirational YouTube videos

Sometimes, every one of us needs to be inspired. No matter who we are, or where we come from, we can all lose sight of our dreams and sink back into the thick fog of apathy.

For this weeks #Top10Thursday I’d like to give you my top 10 inspirational videos from YouTube. Watch each one of them. Watch them often, and remember…

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

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The path to Tweetvana

Tweetvana


“I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.” – Obi-Wan Kenobi

If today’s Twitterpocalypse is anything to go by, it clearly shows that Tweeters keep a VERY close eye on their follower numbers. I very rarely bother to look at my follower count, so the first I knew about the great #zerofollowers disaster was when I started to see the barrage of confused/angry/comedic (delete as applicable) tweets. All of this linked very nicely with my theory of Twitter types.

I believe that amongst all the various groups and factions there are three distinct types of Tweeter, and each of these individuals are distinguished by how they look at the subject of the follow. I shall share them with you now.

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